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Olympic Games 2012: loneliness of the long-distance Paula Radcliffe The mother of two toddlers is preparing for her fifth Olympic Games by slogging along Kenyan dirt tracks with Mo Farah

Kenianen winnen 90 procent van marathons Van de 42 marathons dit najaar met een internationale bezetting in 24 landen kwam bij 38 de winnaar bij de mannen uit Kenia. Dat becijferde David Monti van Race Results Weekly in een artikel dat verscheen op Let's Run. Die reeks kan dit weekend in Athene, Frankfurt, Lausanne, Nairobi en Podgorica alleen maar langer worden.

Ethiopian athletes won 20 of the 30 individual titles between 2004 and 2009, but the balance of power is firmly back with Kenya, whose athletes took a clean sweep of both the individual and team titles in Bydgoszcz last year. Despite the absence of reigning champions Joseph Ebuya and Emily Chebet, who were both non-finishers at their domestic trials, the Kenyan team still boasts an amazing array of talent. They will be chasing a total prize fund of $280,000 in the senior races. This is also the final time the event will be held before it becomes biennial. The course is said to be flat and fast with a couple of artificial climbs plus several man-made hurdles to break up the athletes' rhythm. With Punta Umbria also situated in southern Spain - about 100km south-west of the nearest Spanish airport of Seville - the weather is almost certain to be mild or even warm.